Amber Hollibaugh Quotes

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• We gain power in our refusal to accept less than we deserve.

  Amber Hollibaugh

  Gains, Accepting, Refusal

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• Everyone's always told about politics you have to be practical, but I actually think that's not true, you actually have to hold to a dream... and desire is part of that dream.

  Amber Hollibaugh

  Dream, Thinking, Desire

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• When people give up sex and give up love or they only have love in the context of tradition then I think we're missing the opportunity of saying to each other building community, building desire in community gives all of us the possibility of learning how to be who we always were terrified we'd find out we were, and then not be ashamed of it and to not have our desire and our love embedded in shame is a profound thing and it's part of what drives the movement.

  Amber Hollibaugh

  Sex, Giving Up, Opportunity

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• Sex may be private in the way that you make love, but it's not private in the context of the world we live in.

  Amber Hollibaugh

  Sex, Making Love, World

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• I think that the power of a political vision is deeply engaged with the possibility of how you can live out the liberation that you seek and part of that vision is very much about desire, about the erotic.

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  Thinking, Political, Erotic

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• We're targeted as LGBTQ people because we make people nervous around sex and we practice desire or have the possibility of practicing desire in magical and very, very profound ways. We shouldn't be giving up the possibility of articulating the claim of our body and the claim of our desire as something distinctive and erotically profound.

  Amber Hollibaugh

  Sex, Giving Up, Practice

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• I think social change work is some of the most extraordinary dreaming that any of us have the possibility of doing.

  Amber Hollibaugh

  Dream, Thinking, Possibility

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• For a political movement to not understand that sexuality is a profound component of both how people are oppressed and how people dream, is not to recognize the reality of political power and where it's centered.

  Amber Hollibaugh

  Dream, Reality, People

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• Issues of the economy are profoundly affected by how you live out sexual orientation and gender identity.

  Amber Hollibaugh

  Issues, Identity, Economy

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• If you struggle with issues of documentation, issues of your health care, issues of whether or not you'll be punished for being open about who you are, those things affect how you can be employed or not employed, how you can get an apartment or not get an apartment, how it is that you feel free or not free.

  Amber Hollibaugh

  Struggle, Issues, Documentation

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• I didn't come out and pay a really painful price often, to be LGBT, to not claim my sexuality at the same time. It's not all right with me to not talk about it so I don't make anybody nervous.

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  Lgbt, Pay, Nervous

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• I feel really - actually - quite terrified about the world as it now exists. The kind of sucking the world dry for a dollar seems to me to be even worse (though it was hard for me to imagine 30 years ago that it could get worse) and the idea that bling and profit over human beings is really more and more a credible idea; people don't even examine it with any kind of question: I find that really terrifying.

  Amber Hollibaugh

  Years, Ideas, People

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• I think desire gives us - imagination - as well as actually often we pay a terrible price for it. Women are punished around their sexuality and perceived to be immoral if they practice a certain kind of promiscuous sexuality. It's a very different thing still if you're a guy, if you're a woman and you're straight.

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  Thinking, Practice, Giving

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• If I'm fighting for the possibility of having a kind of desire and possibility, that right now is not too likely, it gives me a different kind of engagement with the future, than if I say, "sex doesn't matter; it's private."

  Amber Hollibaugh

  Sex, Fighting, Giving

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• If you want to be backed by corporations so that you're elected mayor, then it's going to be very problematic for you to support a living wage campaign that would shift the minimum wage to something else.

  Amber Hollibaugh

  Support, Campaigns, Minimum Wage

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• I was a commie and I fought about Marxism and class and race and it informed everything I did.

  Amber Hollibaugh

  Race, Class, Marxism

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• The economy is not removed from the way you live out your private life.

  Amber Hollibaugh

  Way, Economy, Private Life

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• If you're a person with resources who is LGBT, you may have some problems with that - but, frankly, you'll probably have an apartment. If you're poor, if you're transgender, if you're a person of color, if you're HIV positive and you're homeless, the ability to act on desire, the ability to be safely somewhere to make love with anybody that you want to make love with is unlikely.

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  Color, Making Love, Desire

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• We're impacted by all the intersections of our identities and those then are reflected on what our choices are.

  Amber Hollibaugh

  Choices, Identity, Intersections

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• I worked very hard to try and figure out what I thought and I believed that we were going to succeed and that revolutions would happen globally and we would be a part of that and we would have then not capitalism. We would have values based on human lives, not profit. We would actually transform the kinds of ways people built love and built community. It was a very shocking thing to me, out of the end of the 70s and the beginning of the 80s, to realize that that dream - while I still believed in it - was not going to happen in the way that I had hoped.

  Amber Hollibaugh

  Dream, People, Community

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Is it different to come out now than it was to come out thirty-five years ago? Sometimes. But if you come out now and you come from poverty and you come from racism, you come from the terror of communities that are immigrant communities or communities where you're already a moving target because of who you are, this is not a place where it's any easier to be LGBT even if there's a community center in every single borough.

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  Moving, Years, Racism

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• In some ways, the challenge of staying political is to stay a dreamer at the same time.

  Amber Hollibaugh

  Political, Challenges, Dreamer

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• To actually be possessed or possess someone in a way that is unimaginable when you're a young person struggling about your body and whether anybody would ever want you, that's a huge world and that doesn't shift because you're fifty; it doesn't shift because you're 80. It's a vision of the possibility of claiming the right to dream and imagine an impossible place that you were never allowed to go, but you want the world to have as a possibility in the future.

  Amber Hollibaugh

  Dream, Struggle, Vision

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I think that white people are not seen as people with racial histories.

  Amber Hollibaugh

  Thinking, White, People

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• If you can't do anything but fight, so every single solitary thing, every single solitary day, then the privilege of dreaming becomes something that only a few people have.

  Amber Hollibaugh

  Dream, Fighting, People

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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